| Description: | 'Embedded' explores the production and dissemination of images taken in times of conflict that have subsequently become the subject of censorship or authorship controversy. The works employ a deliberate mismatch of language, interpolating people’s names and text into the digital encoding process and then rendering the corrupted JPEG files back into a visual form. Each piece from the series consists of a pair of prints framed together - one containing image and the other containing text - while the corrupted JPEG code on the right is used to generate the distorted photograph on the left. In this way, the fragmented images from one historical event are displayed alongside computer code containing the names of casualties from a related event for which no photographic record exists, creating a correlation between the loss of human life and the loss of information that characterises representations of war. |
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